All was well in the world... Until an ancient evil emerged from the shadows...
Hope was lost... Destruction raged...
In the midst of chaos, a group of almighty warriors shined their light upon the forces of darkness...!
Alya: Uh... What are you doing?
Kim: (Standing on his desk) Our origin story.
Alix: Doesn't sound like it.
Kim: You got a better idea?
Marinette: (Smirks at the readers.) I'm Marinette. Me and my friends were just normal teens living perfectly normal lives.
(The class finds themselves in a mysterious cave. In the center was a book. Surrounding the book were 14 pedestals, each with its own different colored stone.)
Marinette: Then one summer adventure,
(Marinette almost fell into the river, only to be saved by... Hawk Moth.)
Marinette: changed everything...
Hawk Moth: Are you willing to risk your lives just to save the lives of hundreds? Or even millions?
(The teens earn their Miraculouses and meet their kwamis for the first time.)
Ladybug: Yes.
(The heroes take on many akumatized villains.)
Chat Noir: You mess with our home, you mess with us.
(All 14 heroes stand at the Eiffel Tower, glaring at Hawk Moth.)
Miraculous Team: Origins
Kim: (Crosses his arms.) Aw man. That is super.
(Marinette smirks.)
Note that I only made this trailer for fun and have no intentions of writing an actual story. Please refer to SonicPossible00 for the Origins story.
When he found the poor fool, he was hesitant to akumatize the little brat.
But then he changed his mind. Due to valuable information.
The moment his new lackey activated the power he bestowed, the holder of the Butterfly Miraculous was taken back by the great power unleashed that altered the city into the rugged state it has become.
He was skeptical with his new servant's plans, but then decided to go along with it.
And besides, he wasn't in a hurry to face those little brats again. If he did... He hated to admit it, but whenever he or his minions face those little meddling heroes, they'd be minutes away from being defeated.
He hated defeat. The more it happened, the more he was delayed in...
Hawk Moth sighed. Why must fate be so cruel to him? Even the couples dancing around the campfire was making him anxious to... What do those kids usually say? Get it over with.
Then, he saw her. And then him.
She acted shy before the object of her affections. So did he. Moments later, after a few minutes of hesitation, and a little help from their, really, eccentric friend, the two finally joined the other couples dancing around the bonfire.
She was so happy. They were so happy.
Just like how they used to be.
There he goes again. Hopefully she won't sense it and ruin the moment.
He hated to think that such a sweet, pretty little thing would be an obstacle to his dreams.
The moment he was released from his vile prison, he went out to see how much the world has changed during his hundred year long imprisonment.
That's when he found her, taking a nice relaxing walk near the river. When he saw her smile, his thoughts of anger and revenge immediately disappeared.
For a while.
She tripped, and would have fallen down to the river if he had not caught her in time.
At that moment, he thought back, to that day...
That very day...
If only he had succeeded... If only she didn't... If only she understood...
She wanted to thank him. He refused, and left.
Many times he saw her again. Many times she would fall victim to his minions' rampage. And yet, she stood brave and strong throughout the entire ordeal.
Just like the one who meant everything to him.
He wanted to speak to her again.
He got his chance the moment a scream of terror resonated in the midst of the merriment.
Being royalty...stinks.
Chloe sulked on her throne. She wasn't allowed to leave her father's side, or even dance with Adrien. All she could do was sit and watch everyone else having fun.
When is that akuma going to start attacking?
Yeah. Sorry guys, but she so want the present timeline back. And her phone.
She still got to talk to Sabrina, only because the akuma made her the princess' handmaiden.
Finally. As if someone heard her wish... She wasn't serious about it. Just you know. She was just bored. Really bored.
Anyways... the akuma attacks. Everyone ran and screamed for their lives, even her dad.
She and Sabrina ran too. But not away from the attacking akuma.
As the two ran to find a hiding spot to transform, they notice strange things happening; Two people were stuck to each other by a strange purple substance. A green beam struck a plant, animating it into a dog-plant hybrid. A lake suddenly appearing out of nowhere where a bunch of people suddenly fell in. There were also flying fishes and squids with feathered wings.
They were too distracted by the weirdness that they accidentally bumped into Adrien and Marinette, knocking both pairs to the ground.
While that happened, a beam of yellow light struck a banner, turning it into a snake monster made from the same material.
It bares it fangs at the 4 teens and strikes... only to be stopped by Grizzly Bear.
While this happened, the cookies, cakes, and other pastries the Dupain-Chengs brought suddenly developed arms and legs and began moving on their own. Then they attack Grizzly, although they lack the strength to bring him down.
"No!" Sabrina cried in dismay, "Not the Dupain-Chengs pastries!"
Adrien gasped when the animated quiches weakly punched Grizzly's feet, "Not the salmon and spinach quiches! Marinette and her parents spent hours baking their love into those tasty treats!"
"The croissants will be avenged!" Chloe angrily shakes her fist in the air.
A beam of red energy strikes a bunch of rocks, gathering them together until they transformed into an army of golem gargoyles. One attacks Grizzly Bear, releasing his hold on the giant banner snake.
The snake strikes again, only to hit Carapace's force field. The rest of the Miraculous Team arrived, standing before their yet-to-transform teammates to defend them.
Rena Rouge nodded to Marinette who nodded in return. She, Adrien, Chloe, and Sabrina splitted up and found their own hiding places. Seconds later, Ladybug, Chat Noir, Queen Bee and Louve Grise have joined the akuma fighting party.
In the midst of the chaos, Fang and Cookie were separated from Sabine and Tom, and found themselves witnessing the Miraculous Team fighting an army of monsters. One-by-one the monsters fell.
Flamingo and her clones defeated the snake monster by unraveling the banners that make up its entire body.
The pastry monsters... well...
Turns out they still smell good. And still taste good.
This was the key in frightening the golem gargoyles into flying away.
"I regret, nothing!" Antelope proclaims, his mouth still full of cake.
"I feel guilty." Forest Doe sadly looks at the animated donut in her hands. Before eating it.
Dragonfly was... making out with an animated cupcake?!
Dragonfly stops and stares at the readers, "What?"
She then eats the cupcake.
Ladybug approaches Chat Noir who was chowing down on a poor unfortunate animated quiche.
(Okay. I apologize for the... cannibalism I wrote in this chapter. And, maybe in future chapters.)
Rena Rouge was munching on a croissant when Ladybug passed by. The fox hero stops eating when she smells something foul in the air. She sniffs her croissant, but it still has a delicious aroma that made her continue eating.
"Guys, come on." Ladybug calls out to her teammates as she wipes Chat's face, "We got a villain to catch. Also, you guys should watch your weight."
"Not to worry, my lady." Chat flexes a muscle, "Hawk Moth can create an army of dessert akumas and we'd still end up looking fine."
Ladybug giggled at this. Suddenly, she screams when the ground near her feet was blasted and she jumps into Chat's arms.
From high above a tree, hidden in the shadows was a lone figure. He wore a pointed wizard hat and wielded a staff with the top in a circular curve.
When he noticed the heroes have spotted him, he quickly fled.
"After him!" Ladybug pointed.
Arachnid spots the same figure disappearing in a corner, "Over there!"
Carapace blinked in confusion while pointing at a different direction, "No he went there."
Flamingo stuttered as she points in two directions, both where she saw the mysterious akuma went to.
The team was confused. Was the akumatized villain confusing them with an illusion? Or was the akuma duplicating himself/herself?
"Guys, just go after him." Ladybug ordered, "Split up. And the Kitty Chat is already taken."
Chat felt his inner organs boiling to his surprise. Kitty Chat?
As the team split up into groups of two, Rena Rouge stopped to ask Ladybug, "Any ideas who we're up against?"
"How should I know?" Ladybug replied rather sharply, "Do I look like some kind of Akuma Detector?"
Rena was surprised by her best friend's attitude. She suddenly sounded, demanding, and impatient, which did not sound like her at all.
Ladybug grinned, "Just kidding. Now run along and let's get this crazy day over with."
This did not change Rena's suspicions towards her. Even as she and Carapace left, the fox heroine couldn't stop thinking there was something wrong about her best friend.
And was it her, or did the leader of the Miraculous Team smelled, bad? She didn't even get beaten on the wet, muddy ground.
Chat watched as everyone of their teammates left, leaving him with Ladybug.
Who, happens to be still in his arms. Hugging him, tightly...? Her face close to his...too close...
Ladybug was surprised when Chat placed her down. She pouted a bit but then smiled as he grabbed his hand and led him to where the akuma was heading towards.
Both Fang and Cookie growled as they secretly followed Ladybug and Chat Noir on their search for the akumatized villain.
Whoever was akumatized, really knows his/her way through the shadows.
This was an advantage; Whenever the heroes were so close in capturing who they believe was the villain, he/she would immediately disappear into the darkness, leaving the heroes confused, surprised, or hit by their own weapon.
Sometimes, the akuma would cast spells just to keep the heroes away. Just like in Antelope's case which involves feather, a bar of soap, and a field of cacti.
On the bright side, Arachnid was reunited with his precious technology since he woke up in the Medieval Age. For a minute. After the akuma escaped.
Carapace couldn't tell if the akuma was traveling by shadow, or duplicating himself/herself then traveling by shadow or...
He noticed his girlfriend was in deep thought, given the look on her face.
"You okay?" He asked.
After a few minutes of chasing the akuma, only to fail catching him/her several times, Rena Rouge finally replies, "Something just doesn't feel right about this. I don't even think we're chasing the akuma."
She couldn't help but think they were falling for a trap. Even before she woke up, she felt something was not right with the world. Then she woke up, finding Paris in the Medieval Age.
The same feeling happened again as they chased the suppose akuma. To be honest, she had the same feeling earlier, when Ladybug, Chat Noir, Queen Bee and Louve Grise joined them in taking down the monsters.
Exactly what was Hawk Moth and his new victim planning?
They managed to corner the akuma. Carapace threw his shell at the akuma, only for the villain to disappear into the shadows. Once again, the shell bounced off a wall and returned to a disappointed Carapace's hand.
"You know what? I'm getting tired of these old tricks." The turtle hero complains, "Why doesn't he cast a spell on us or something?"
His fox partner was wondering the same thi...
...
Spell... tricks... Trixx...!
Rena wasn't sure, but she decided to grab Carapace's arm and drags him to the opposite direction the akuma went.
"You sure this is where the bad guy went?" Chat asked as he and Ladybug leap on top of a roof.
"Well we won't know 'til we find out." Ladybug replied.
Chat's staff rings, signaling a call from Carapace. Before he could answer it, Ladybug shushes him, pointing to the same shadowed being they have been chasing, prompting him to reject the call.
The heroes jumped to the roof where they saw the akuma, but when they arrived, he/she was nowhere to be seen.
Chat groaned once more. He grabs his staff, "This getting us nowhere. We should just regroup with the others and think of a new plan."
"No!" Ladybug quickly grabs Chat's hand, gaining a confuse look from her partner, "I mean... There's no rush."
"'No rush'?" Chat echoed, "The whole city is cursed and a lot of people were hurt."
"Not that hurt." Ladybug pointed out.
"Something's bothering you LB?" Chat raises an eyebrow, "You've been acting weird lately."
Ladybug turned around so that Chat couldn't see the uneasiness in her face. A couple of seconds later, she spoke, "It's just... It's just so frustrating. Hawk Moth almost never gives us a break. Sometimes heroes have lives too."
Chat was a little bit suspicious. This did not sound like Ladybug at all.
Sure she complains about Hawk Moth ruining a perfectly good day, but never this long.
He places a hand on her shoulder, "Hey. Don't worry. We'll stop him and win just like we always do."
Ladybug wraps her arms around his neck, "You're the best, Kitty."
Okay, something was definitely wrong. Whenever Marinette/Ladybug hugs him, or even touches him, he feels his heart beating like a herd of stampeding horses.
Right now, it was as if a hammer was pounding his heart. A hammer embedded all over with large spikes.
"You guys are having fun."
Both heroes turned to the source of the voice and found Rena Rouge looking at them with her arms crossed and a glare in her eyes.
"Rouge! Er, I mean.. Rena. What are you doing here?" Ladybug asked, looking at both sides nervously, "Where's Carapace?"
Rena growled, throwing her hands in the air for emphasis, "He's just so... Ugh! He said my ideas are so overrated and is all 'Why can't you be more like Ladybug?' Ladybug, Ladybug, Ladybug!"
Chat and Ladybug were slightly taken back by their teammate's outburst. After a few seconds of deep breathing, she manages to calm down.
"I can't blame him." She sadly turns to Ladybug, "You're smart, and clever, and pretty. In fact, you're the smartest, most clever, and prettiest among us Miraculous heroes."
Chat felt sorry for his teammate. Just as he was about to comfort her, Ladybug beats him to it.
"Well, you shouldn't blame him." Ladybug stood proudly with her head held high, "After all, I am the best."
What? Okay now Chat is really suspicious. Ladybug would never boast in front of a friend who was hurt.
"Carapace has tastes." Ladybug continues, "I'm surprise he hasn't asked me on a date yet...!"
Something tackled Ladybug down. Ladybug looks up, only to find an angry Fang on top of her. Cookie landed on Fang's head, and growls at Ladybug.
"Ladybug would hang Carapace by the feet if he even has a small crush on her." Rena spoke sternly just as Carapace arrived.
"Yeah. She'd even let the akumas bury me if I pretend to like her just to distract them." The turtle hero added.
"Can you guys just shut up and get these beast and mutt off me?!" Ladybug demanded.
Realization struck Chat and he too glared at "Ladybug", "Ladybug would never call Cookie a mutt, or Fang a beast. You're not Ladybug."
"Yes I am." "Ladybug" insisted, "Guys, it's me, Marinette, your friend."
"We agreed to use our superhero names whenever we're in costume." Queen Bee suddenly appeared with Louve Grise, "Remember, Ladybug?"
Soon the rest of the Miraculous Team appeared. They must have been hiding and listening because they were all glaring at "Ladybug".
Realizing her deception has been discovered, Ladybug pushed Fang off her, letting the croc and Pomeranian fall off the roof.
Before the two pets could collide with the ground, Queen Bee and Arachnid pulled them back up with their top and lasso.
"Now who are you really?" Chat demanded as the team cornered the fake Ladybug.
The fake Ladybug clenched her teeth and brought out a a book with a dark purple cover. On the cover was a black butterfly symbol.
The shadow wizard duplicates were just decoys. The real villain was with them the whole time, masquerading as their leader.
The fake Ladybug opened the akumatized book and dark purple light poured out, transforming her into her true form.
The akuma was a teenage girl with light brown skin and long dark brown hair. She wore tall black boots with heels, a purple cloak with faux white fur and golden designs, and black finger-less gloves. She wore a matching purple masquerade mask with golden details, surrounding her green cat-like eyes. Rather than a witch's hat, she wore a golden tiara on her head. Her ears were elven with pointed tips. She held a golden staff in her right hand.
Chat pointed his staff at the villain, "Where's the real Ladybug?"
The villain just grinned maliciously at the heroes.
Where the Eiffel Tower once stood, was a tall stone tower. Multiple white butterflies swarmed inside the tower, revealing a hooded man in a dark purple cloak.
His hood fell off, revealing the masked face of Hawk Moth.
In his arms, was an unconscious Marinette.